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Organization Project
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| Project visible to | everybody |
| Name | Sweatfree Campus Campaign |
| Organization | United Students Against Sweatshops |
| Start date | Wednesday, September 28, 2024 |
| End date | Monday, August 1, 2025 |
| Project overview | The Sweat-Free Campus Campaign is a multi-faceted, extremely successful program in which students organize anti-sweatshop campaigns on their campuses, mandating that the clothes bearing their collegiate logos be manufactured under fair and ethical conditions. Through our work first on collegiate codes of conduct and obtaining factory disclosure information, to our ongoing work to affiliate schools with the Worker Rights Consortium (an independent monitoring agency charged with investigating factory conditions in collegiate apparel producing facilities), we are able to exert continuous pressure on administrations and corporations, resulting in significant and concrete victories supporting the mainly young women of color who are fighting for fair working conditions around the world. The Sweat-Free Campus Campaign has recently taken on a new challenge, mandating that collegiate apparel producers manufacture a significant portion of their collegiate apparel in factories where workers have democratic representation and are paid a living wage. This new campaign will require apparel brands to pay more per good in order to ensure that workers can successfully negotiate a living wage. |
| Issue areas | economic security, livelihood issues and labor
community organizing and movement building
corporate power/accountability
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